Week in Review: April 17, 2026

Here’s a roundup of housing news and issues that we noticed this week. But first:

The ECOHH Facebook page has reached 499 followers! Want to be our 500th? We invite you to become a follower of the page so we can celebrate this milestone :) 

From ECOHH’s social media

• Preventing youth homelessness through direct cash transfers

• How to improve the National Housing Strategy

• Don’t wait to get your tickets for the ECOHH 40th anniversary celebration - space is limited!

Relevant housing news 

• Edmonton’s homelessness crisis is political violence

• Edmonton women's shelter closes after city declines to renew lease

• The Squamish Nation’s Impossibly Simple Solution to Vancouver’s Housing Crisis

• Study measures housing insecurity among Black youth in Edmonton

• ‘I don’t want to leave’: Regina seniors frustrated over being asked to move from long-time public housing units

• Released inmates face housing crunch

• Concern that many people released from jail in Sudbury end up homeless

• Wheatley, Ont., woman calls on province to help after daughter evicted from transitional housing site

• West Broadway residents aim to take housing off the market, keep it affordable with new ownership structure

• Essex affordable housing tenants say they're terrified by plans to sell their homes

• Saskatoon harm reduction site closes. What now?

• The do's and don'ts of renting

• Halifax drops plan to require affordable housing units in new buildings

• City advised to reject plan for managed homeless encampment

• End Homelessness Winnipeg finds too many people are experiencing chronic homelessness

• Winnipeg homelessness crisis 'just growing,' outpacing housing additions: advocate

• Housing advocates call for new zoning plan

• Edmonton renter feels changes are needed in the housing market

• Quebec community groups form new coalition to fight for affordable housing

• Quebec homelessness rising sharply in regions outside Montreal, report finds

• ‘I don’t matter’: Homeless people in Kentville say stigma in the community is unfair

• Report to council breaks down record growth in Vancouver’s homeless population

• A homeless encampment in Windsor's downtown was cleared recently. Where do the inhabitants go?

• Fort McMurray grapples with change to provincial funding structure for homeless population 

• A N.S. cancer screening program is now available to the unhoused, but gaps remain

• What are rent strikes and do they work? 

• BILD Edmonton hopes to reset public conversation around infill builds

• Halifax councillor pitches idea of modernizing fire stations with housing

• Affordable housing project in north Edmonton OK’d by city council despite concerns

• Councillor calls for independent audit of Tolpuddle Housing Co-op as city weighs intervention

• London’s micro-modular shelter reducing homeless encampments and unsheltered population, progress report reveals

As always, we recommend checking out these sources for additional information on housing and homelessness

• Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness (CAEH) 

• Canadian Centre for Housing Rights

• Canadian Housing & Renewal Association (CHRA) 

• Federal Housing Advocate

• Homeless Hub (Canadian Observatory on Homelessness) 

• Homeward Trust 

• Housing Complex  

• Make the Shift   

• National Right to Housing Network (NRHN)  

• Social Housing & Human Rights (SHHR) 

• Women’s National Housing and Homelessness Network